Possible Clues:

• Easy time, as it were
• Informal outdoor meal
• Eat out -- it's a piece of cake
• Do without cream jug, do you say?
• It might be put on a blanket
• Choose place for Old Bill, say, to eat out
• Alfresco repast
• Copper going about in charge of part of UK -- easy task?
• Easy task — outdoor event
• Piece of cake and cream jug? Both, we hear